The Crash II: the Road Back to ATH Just Got Longer, but Hope Remains

As the overall crypto market is seeing a another huge wave of selling, all top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization are down by more than 70% from their all-time highs (ATH) (well, except stablecoins.)

Since its all-time high in December 2017, bitcoin is now down nearly 77%, ether - 90%, ripple - 88%, litecoin - 91%, according to OnChainFX data.

Now, the price of the number one cryptocurrency, bitcoin, is down 15% over the past 24 hours. At the time of writing, the only coins in the top 100 that are in the green are a couple of USD-pegged stablecoins, with many major coins being down between 10% and 20%.

As has been the trend over the past few days, Ripple’s XRP has held up great in the sea of red numbers with a 24 hour decline of just below 1%. According to some commentators, Ripple may be getting some of its stability from being a very different cryptocurrency, as it aims to work within the current banking system rather than replacing it. UPDATED (UTC 09:20) Ripple price was stable earlier during the day, but later buyers gave up and sellers took control below the USD 0.460 support.

Another possible explanation is that the drama following the Bitcoin Cash split has affected the rest of the crypto space, and in particular other proof-of-work-based assets like bitcoin. Bitcoin Cash was one of the hardest-hit coins last night, falling more than 40%.

“Gigantic” opportunity

As the crypto market hits rock bottom once again, some still see opportunities in the space. According to Spencer Bogart, partner at the crypto-focused investment firm Blockchain Capital, there is still a “gigantic” opportunity in the crypto space, and in particular in projects that are related to bitcoin, or “programmable money,” as Bogart calls it.

“I still believe that programmable money in a multi-trillion-dollar idea. Right now, we’re in a bear market, but we’re coming off one of the biggest bull markets of all time,” Bogart told Bloomberg on Monday.

Meanwhile, Stephen Palley, Anderson Kill partner, reacts to Bitcoin tumbling below the USD 5,000 mark by saying he doesn't see a connection or causal relationship between recent SEC (The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) activity and the price of cryptocurrency.

The community

At the same time, the cryptoverse met another crash with emotions, attempts of inspiration, insights and jokes, of course. Take a look:

Well, The Dood's officially #REKT. I've got money and $BTC to invest, but I'm sitting on the sidelines till I see a market I can be more confident in. Considering I started with pennies, I'm still pretty happy about where I'm at! Better days are coming... I hope. 😂🤣

Inspiration

sending hugs to *everyone* in the crypto community. we're all learning something valuable this week about investors and speculators. hoping this marks the start of a broader culture shift for our nascent industry.

Since we don't have much experience under our belt with this yet, will be interesting to see bitcoin's performance as a non-correlated asset class versus equities in an equities bear market. May get to test theories soon.

The problem with multicoin shitbag funds is that many have a sizeable position in Bitcoin. It is not unlikely people panick-selling shitcoins (realize they got conned by techno babble and sucked into unregistered securities pyramid schemes) are liquidating the whole basket.

Just hit the strongest monthly support on the entire chart.I would not be shorting down here.If BTC doesn't straight up collapse I expect a strong move up towards resistance (Black) this or next month.Once we're there the fate of BTC is decided. pic.twitter.com/mcCqDtyTik

Ameer Rosic, an entrepreneur, investor and one of the co-founders of BlockGeeks, an online blockchain educational platform, has referred to his previous tweet by saying: "Not 80% but close! Doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that this was going to happen."

Meanwhile, Marco Sanori, president and chief legal officer of Blockchain, a cryptocurrency wallet, showed the bright side of the bitcoin adoption: confirmed bitcoin transactions are growing, while cost per transaction are dropping.